Past
Grantees

Writer Davida Adedjouma was awarded a grant to spend two months in Australia and surrounding islands. Adedjouma seeks a cultural exchange with black Australian women writers with whom she's been networking for the past two years. She plans to initiate collaborative writing and video projects with those artists.

Dancer/choreographer Sandy Agustin was awarded funding to spend six weeks in the Philippines studying Filipino dance in solo and duet form. The majority of her time will be spent with the Bayanihan Dance Troupe in Manila. Agustin's plan is to investigate as many dances as possible to blend into her modern dance vocabulary.

Composer, musician and educator, Marilyn Allysum received $1,000 to spend six days in the Bay Area of California. She'll take private study in classical music techniques and traditions of the Bansuri flute of India and Gu zhong harp of China. She hopes to bring musical exchanges and co-concerts to Minnesota audiences.

Musician Marc Anderson received a grant for seven weeks of travel in Ghana, Guinea and New York City. The travel period will be taken up with intense study of traditional West African and Afro-Caribbean drumming techniques. In Ghana, Anderson will continue his study and performance of traditional drumming; in Guinea, he'll establish connections for a longer stay in the future and, at the same time, study djembe and dzudzun drumming. In New York City, Anderson will study traditional Cuban and Haitian drumming.